There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of different site tools to use to get started. From WordPress and Blogger to a blog tool provided by your host and a whole myriad of free blogging tools and systems that you could download. What is best for you? Well that’s the problem, what’s best for you might not be what’s best for the next person, so there is not one straightforward answer.
What’s Your Blogging Purpose?
If you are blogging to earn cash, which seems to be the incentive of ample of new bloggers, then plenty of of the free tools are out as their terms and conditions prohibit advertising and sponsored posting. But, if you are blogging to inspire yourself and income is not in question, then the free sites have other, hidden, tremendous advantages.
Blogging To Fitness, And Others
Plenty of people start blogging to keep themselves following a training plan, to lose weight or to get to a race correctly trained. This is a tremendous use of websites and will work best if you van share your experiences with others in the same situation. For these people, going to a free community system for instance Real Buzz is best. But you cannot advertise.
Blogging For An Income
On the other hand, the majority of new bloggers seem to be interested in earning through blogging, which reduces the options. Having said that, my favourite system for blogging is using the self hosted version ofWordPress . It beats, in my opinion, all other blogging tools hands down. Nothing comes near it and I even know of web designers who use it on clients websites as a Content Management tool to install sites in no time. Its popularity is part of its success, meaning that you could download free ‘Theme’ and stacks of plugins to enable you to customise your site in minutes, even if you know nothing about sites.
The downsides? Well you do need to buy a URL and hosting and install WordPress. Actually, it is not that difficult once you are used to it, it just costs you with the hosting. A few hosts have a single click installation forWordPress whilst others require you to download the files, unzip them and then FTP them to the server. But that is not that difficult.
Blogging An Income, For Free
Finally, if you really cannot face installing WordPress or cannot afford hosting and your own URL, what options are left for you? Well of the free blogging tools that I know around the only one that still allows advertising is Google’s Blogger. Head in excess of there, sign up for an account, select your weblog name and you are up and running and ready to site. Straightforward!
But why doesn’t everyone who is blogging for an income use Blogger? The answer is straightforward, numerous advertisers will not pay for websites with a Blogger domain name. Therefore, you quite often still end up paying for a domain name anyway.
So, if you want to know what is the best blogging tool, then I would say WordPress, But if you want to do it for free, then there are alternatives that may be suitable, but reducing any chances of an income.
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Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start A Blog . Call in if you need any help or advice with starting a blog .
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